We empirically investigate the relationship between corruption and growth using a firm-level data set that is unique in … scale, covering almost 88,000 firms across 141 economies in 2006-2020, with wide-ranging corruption experiences. The scale … and detail of our data allow us to explore the corruption-growth relationship at a very local level, within industries in …

exogenous variation in the exposure of illegally favored firms using random municipality audits by a large anti-corruption …

relevant role of country-level development, institutions, and corruption. I find that out of a full set of ten different growth …, legal systems and property rights, and lower levels of corruption, firms face lower levels of financing constraints. I … provide novel empirical evidence that both firm- and country-level corruption hinder firms' access to financing …

I examine the relation between bureaucratic corruption ('to get things done') and firm performance in Central and … data from the Amadeus database. The estimates, identified from within-firm variation, suggest that bureaucratic corruption …

foreign direct investment (FDI) and corruption. The prevailing literature has produced confused and contradictory results on … this vital relationship due to errors in their measurement of corruption which are correlated with FDI inflows. When a less … biased operationalization is employed, we find clear evidence of corruption during both registration and procurement …